W. Somerset Maugham
It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, "I don’t know.
It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, "I don’t know.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks, as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.
It is amazing how much you can accomplish, when it doesn’t matter who gets the credit.
After crosses and losses, men grow wiser and humbler.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don’t take yourself so seriously.
Humility is not thinking less of yourself; it's thinking of yourself less.
If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.
We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.
We have no hope of solving our problems without harnessing the diversity, the energy, and the creativity of all our people.
Never judge someone by the way he looks or a book by the way it’s covered; for inside those tattered pages there’s a lot to be discovered.
Hating skin color is contempt for God’s divine creative imagination. Honoring it is appreciation for conscious, beautiful, loved-inspired diversity.
He who is different from me does not impoverish me; he enriches me…For no man seeks to hear his own echo or to find his reflection in the glass.